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GARMENT SUPPORTER. No. 357,155. Patented Feb. 1, 1887.

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Figs. 2 and 3 show modifications.

UNITED STATE PATENT OFFICE.

ABRAHAM P. BINDSKOPF, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIM SELF AND HENRY P. BIND GARM ENT-S sKoPn o'F sAMn rLAcn.

UPPORTER.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,155, dated February 1, 1887.

Application filed November 16, 1886.

To aZZ zuh0m it may concern;

Be it known that l, ABRAHAM P. RINDS- KOIF, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Garment-Supporter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. My invention relates to that class of gar; ment-supporters wherein the garment is held by compression between two sides or members of the device; and the invention consists in such construction of the supporter that the sides or members thereof have a spring or clasping action upon that portion of the garment held by thesupporter, thus obviating all danger of detachment.

The preferred form of supporter is made of a single piece of wire bent to form a clasp at its lower end, a loop at its upper end, and an intermediate opening or space for inserting a portion of the garment into the clasp, or between the members or side pieces that constitute it. The upper loop is by preference formed by crossing the wire and bending its ends transversely, so that they lap past each other, thus forming a bar for attaching the device to a strap or tape. The bending of the wire to form the loop puts a tension upon the outer members of the supporter, which-is exerted at the clasp portion, and this intermediate bending also forms the intermediate space for the convenient insertion of a portion of the garment to the clasp.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 shows one form of the supporter, and illustrates its application to astocking.

Arepresents the clasp portion of the supporter, B the intermediate space, and G the upper loop, closed by the horizontal portions a of the wire, which constitute the bar to receive the strap or tape D. The supporter is made of a single piece of wire (except Fig. 3, as described below) bent in the center at b to form the main side pieces or members, 0 0. These side members are substantially in the form of opposite curves-ofbeauty, the lower short curves approaching each other nearest at c, a suitable distance above the lower initial bend, b, so thata portion of a garment, E, forced between the bends c 0 will spread the members c c, causing a stress to ,be exerted at 1),

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which reacts upon the garment and holds it as 5 5 in a spring-clasp. The larger curves of the side pieces, 0, approach each other at the upper portion of the. supporter, and thus close the intermediate space, B, and also the lower part of the loop 0, and the wires are crossed at d, and each extended a distance equal to about one-half the width of the tape D. The wire is then bent -at e e to form the horizontal straight portions a a, which in Figs. 1 and 2 lap past eachother and form 6 the bar for the tape, as above mentioned.

In Fig. 1 the portions a of the wire are left straight at their extremities, while in Fig. 2 they are bent to form small eyes or hooks ff, which are-designed to embrace the edges of 0 the tape D, so there will be no danger of the supporter becoming detached from the tape.

In Fig. 8 the extremities of the wires are bent to form the eyes h h, which are united by a small link, 45, forming a complete connection between the extremities of the wire.

By crossing the wire at d the side members,

'0, may be easily spread apart for detaching the supporter from the garment by pressing the bends c 6 toward each other.

The bends c'c', exerting a claspingor spring action, as they do, upon the garment, obviate all danger of the supporter working off from the garment of its own accord.

Having thus described my invention, what 8 I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As an improved article of manufacture, a garment-supporter made of a single piece of wire and formed with a' spring-clasp, A, loop G, and intermediate opening, B, the extremities of the wire terminating at the top of the holder, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

2. The garment-supporter herein shown and 5 described, made of a single piece of wire bent at b to form the members 0, the latter bent toward each other at c, thence curved outward, crossed at d, and bentat e to form the horizontal bar-pieces a, both ends of the wire ter- IC minating at the top of the holder for opening the clasp portion of the holder, substantially as. described.

ABRAHAM 1?. BIN DSKOPF.

Witnesses:

H. A. Wnsr, EDGAR TATE. 

